Who Is Tony Heller?

First, you should know that I’m pretty much a nobody in the climate debate. I’m laughed at by all climatologists. I’m not even taken seriously by true climate skeptics. I don’t have a degree in climatology. I haven’t written a single academic paper about climate change and I don’t have a job related to climatology or the weather. What I do have is a blog and a Twitter account. And as it turns out, that’s pretty much all you need to be a somebody in the climate debate.

My blog is a shit stain on the Internet.

Like a shit stain, my blog is ugly, embarrassing and, as much as you hate to, it’s something you have to deal with. One fellow climate denier described my blog as “the crack house of skepticism.” But enough uneducated morons and right-wing ideologues link to my blog to grant me substantial ranking on Google search results. As a result, any layperson on the Internet who has researched global warming with Google to a fair degree has likely read the bullshit posted on my website where I claim to be able to drive 250,000 visitors to my site every week and have received over 20 million page views as of November 2014. I have also attracted over 400011,00014,000 19,000 Twitter followers with more than 18,00050,00084,000 111,000 tweets. And so although a complete nobody in the climate debate, I have a fair amount of influence over thousands, perhaps millions, of impressionable individuals who don’t have a basic grasp of the facts on global warming.

My first notable attempt at refuting climate scientists was in an article appearing on “The Register” website which was reprinted as my first guest blog post on Anthony Watts’ infamous “Watt’s Up with That?” climate denial website using my pseudonym “Steven Goddard.” Though I’m not qualified in any way to perform climate analysis, like many successful climate deniers, I have enough of a background in science and math to appear knowledgeable to the average Joe, but anybody with a serious background in climatology quickly realizes how clueless I am. But I’ve learned you don’t need to be right or truthful to attract an audience. Today’s political climate is rife with rabidly anti-government, free market types that are easy to manipulate and connect with.

In 2010, after a two-year stint guest blogging at WUWT, Anthony Watts figured out what an embarrassment I was to his site and fired me from my volunteer position as a guest blogger. So, I did what any denier hungry for a piece of the oil money action would do and launched my own climate denial blog, “Real Climate,” which I supplemented with my Twitter feed a year later. Continuing to post anonymously under my pseudonym “Steven Goddard,” I hammered out piles of pure bullshit making all kinds of baseless accusations against scientists and government officials. It wasn’t until June 23, 2014 that I finally started getting some traction with a post accusing NOAA and NASA of purposefully fudging US temperature data. Of course, it was all bullshit and easily refuted but that didn’t matter. It was choice red meat propaganda and so it got picked up by the corporate shills at Fox News and spread far and wide throughout the right wing echo chamber. I had finally hit the big time and now the world had heard about Steven FUCKING Goddard.

Hitting the big time at Heartland. Let it rain big oil checks!

But now that I was getting some attention, it became clear that I couldn’t properly capitalize on my new found notoriety by remaining anonymous. So on June 27, 2014, I revealed my true identity, Tony Heller.

My next big break was my speaking gig at Heartland Institute’s climate denier conference held in Las Vegas just a couple of weeks later in July. You can watch my rambling, bumbling presentation at the conference here. Despite my rather underwhelming talk, the event was still a fantastic opportunity to network with other climate deniers and start connecting with others who could help me get paid for spewing my bullshit to my denier lemmings and clouding the climate change debate for my unsuspecting readers.

I’m looking forward to continuing my work and building upon my reputation as an unapologetic sociopath and fighting the climate jihadists with juvenile insults. I am a rabid partisan and my work is an extension of my extreme right-wing ideology. Do I feel shame deceiving readers with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, half truths, and ceaseless cherry picking? Nope! In fact, I view all progressives as the enemy and I will gladly say next to anything if I think it will undermine them. And I certainly have no issue with doing all this work for money so please donate today!

they are afraid of the truth , they cant argue with the facts , so they just write shit about him, that’s the sort of Stuff people of low intellectual ability do when they have their back against the wall.

Rising see levels have been going on since the last ice age. Good luck with stopping it. Perhaps a better solution is to listen to the Dutch. They have been living below the see level building dikes since year 700 due to see level rise.

Your education level apparently ended with kindergarten – you are a
climate denier that is incapable of spelling “sea” – no typos; you in fact misspelled it 3 times.
(“see” means to view or perceive with the eyes)
That in and of itself is quite humorous since
“sea” level was your entire topic of concern!

Alfonso,
Why don’t you make the same demand of the person he/she was replying to?
Why don’t you demand that he prove that “rising see levels have been going on since the last ice age”.
Have you ever wondered what criteria you use to decide whether you accept some claims without question at face value, while demanding rigorous prove for others?

You see an insult in my comment?? Please explain how demanding uniformity of thinking and asking you to question your criteria for acceptance of claims of one side over the other in any qualifies as an insult. You must be a great scientist …. if anyone challenges your theory, just claim they insulted you and hope that makes them go away. One step away from pulling the racist card.

And if you have seen this data, what is preventing from linking to it?
(Note: It said DATA, meaning ALL of it, so not another Heller cherry pick.)

Why do you keep deflecting? What is preventing you from linking to the data source used by Heller?

Let’s make your task very clear: Show me the raw data (ie. not from Heller, nor from any blogging site, but from the actual data collector or their appointed representative) which proves the statement “rising see levels have been going on since the last ice age”.

If you can’t do that, then you are treating Heller as a god whose word should be trusted at all times, without any need to check his sources. Show that your acceptance or denial is not agenda-driven. Alternatively, show that you are a real scientist.

No, I have no problem with your link at all, for two reasons.
(1) It quotes the source paper
(2) It shows that there was no sea level rise after at least 2000 years ago.
So thanks for taking the time to prove exactly what I wanted proven.

You’ve missed the point of my comments. I’d already accepted the graph. But I was trying to force you to think scientifically instead of just swallowing Heller’s claims unthinkingly. Now let’s continue this process:

Click on the smaller graph “Expansion of the most recent 9 kyr”.

2 mm/yr is 2 metres/1000 years

Does this graph show 2 metres of rise in the past 1000 years?
Or 4 metres in the last 2000 years?

There are too many variables to say precisely how much the oceans are rising. Some tide gauges show sea levels are falling because the land is rising.

Besides the ice cycle is tectonic plate movement and the millions of tons of debris that washes into the sea everytime it rains. Tons of space dust falls into the sea every day. It all a part of the complicated equation.

One thing it isn’t, is Co2. This global warming nonsense has to stop. It’s a scam to make money. Your trolling people isn’t helping.

Of course you’re done. You were done when you invented that figure of 2 mm/yr, and didn’t have the balls to admit that you made it up. What you don’t seem to understand is that believing Heller implicitly because he is telling you what you want to hear, while disbelieving climate scientists implicitly because they are not, is the most extreme form of cherry picking.

Of course, the fact that I’ve shown that your claim about sea level rise was wrong (which you basically admitted to when you changed tack) won’t stop you making that claim elsewhere. You’ll simply take more care not to share the data when asked, and instead assert “Heller said it, it must be right”.

You people tell yourselves that you are “true skeptics”, when nothing could be further from the truth. It is why “denier” is the only appropriate word for you.

What I find most entertaining about this hit piece is that despite all of the insults, Heller has proved with real sources that back up his assertions.
Is he 100% right?
Nope, nobody is but what he shows makes a lot more sense than the “coming ice age global warming climate change” cabal.
I noticed Heller really made that potholer chump look stupid. He has not only answered that miserable bag of puke but shamed him/her as well.

Uhh, yeah right. Drink that cool aid. You will swallow just about anything. I watched the Potholer vs. Heller videos and you totally mischaracterized the truth, as any casual layperson observing would agree.

Typical of Climate alarmists, they chastise those who open themselves up to debate, yet can’t muster the same energy to disprove what Tony has to say in a open forum. What we get though, is an immature attempt at mocking somebody who’s actually trying to cut through the nonsense and get people to see reason. It’s funny how since I was a kid we’ve been told about the harm to the O-Zone, then it was global warming, which then became Climate change. You’re starting to run out of excuses kids…..

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I am a climate scientist with 40 years of experience and I find Tony Heller to be a refreshing bit information bashing the embarrassing climate alarmism that is so prevalent in our disappointing daily news cycle…There is no measurable anthropogenic influence on our current global climate satellite data.

“And so although a complete nobody in the climate debate, I have a fair amount of influence over thousands, perhaps millions, of impressionable individuals who don’t have a basic grasp of the facts on global warming.”…

…and yet, all of the allegedly competent experts repeatedly deny Heller/Goddard’s invites to debate, on at least one occasion throwing down the race card. You’d think if these “experts'” motivation was truth and the well-being of society, and they were truly confident their positions would hold up to logical scrutiny they’d be lined up to debunk Mr. Heller/Goddard to his face in front of as many folks as possible.

Curious if you consider John Stossel a nobody. Agree with him or not, he’s been in the investigative journalism field for 50 years and he couldn’t get any of them to join a debate with folks from Heartland either. EVERYONE has an agenda. I’m not a real scientist but I’ve known a few over the years and they are always very stubborn, often annoyingly so, and quite eager to argue their point. If the climate crisis data was THAT compelling at least one of them would jump at the opportunity to prove it, if not for Heller’s relatively meager 62k followers, at least for the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of folks who’d see it if Stossel moderated it.

Wake up, man. It’s about money and power, not the well being of humanity.

I’ve been following this climate non-debate for some time now. Honestly, Tony Heller is one of the most credible sources out there. If he weren’t they would not be trashing him and making the efforts to minimize his videos. Thank you Tony for continuing to fight the good fight.

Oh I see … so when deniers trash the comment section of videos containing real climate science, they are telling everyone what a credible source they are responding to …. it that how your ‘logic’ works?

Tony’s goal has always just to track what we know about our climate history in order to force an honest conversation. I commend him for his diligence and honesty to the facts. To prove groupthink has always had seriously negative repercussions

So Tony has you worried, clearly he has hit a nerve and triggered you sufficiently for you to create this page.
Real scientists and truth seekers would never undertake such a character assassination. As they say, the truth hurts. Your actions simply create further doubt with regard to AGW.
I hope he sues your arse for defamation.
You ought to be ashamed, but people like you have no shame, You simply exist through ego and malevolence.

The whole of so-called “climate science” relies on the illogic of the fallacy of “begging the question”. All climate models assume anthropogenic-carbon-induced global climate change in attempting to prove anthropogenic-carbon-induced global climate change and, surprise surprise, the models consistently fail. Climate science just doesn’t fly. It is not science: it is science fiction.

Climate science is a hoax based on a fallacy, but I will happily concede that the lack of credible science does not imply that anthropogenic-carbon-induced global climate change does not exist. Only time will tell that. So far the unadulterated climate data says no. History agrees. And alarmist predictions keep failing.

Hilarious page! You guys are clowns. The dead giveaway is the infantile name calling. Do you really think this stuff is persuasive? Heller provides graphs, context, all the info is in the open. The only effective way to counter him is to show how he is wrong. When you lead with dumb insults you show everyone you don’t have an argument. Case closed.